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Updating an Empirically Based Tool for Analyzing Congenital Heart Surgery Mortality

Abstract Objectives: STAT Mortality Categories (developed 2009) stratify congenital heart surgery procedures into groups of increasing mortality risk to characterize case mix of congenital heart surgery providers. This update of..

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Monitoring the quality of cardiac surgery based on three or more surgical outcomes using a new variable life-adjusted display

Abstract Quality problem or issue The traditional variable life-adjusted display (VLAD) is a graphical display of the difference between expected and actual cumulative deaths. The VLAD assumes binary outcomes: death..

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